Nothingness As Somethingness
How does nothing fit into a sentence?
Loss stuffed into swelling syllables
By a white coated man with
God in his words and pain in his eyes.
Nothing to echo round the empty consonants and vowels,
But the agony of his poor widow's howls.
He died at 5:13am at age 50.
Future folded. Once then twice.
Straining against the torn edges
Of the words.
They say the minute his heart gave out
But not the moment months ago when
He was swallowed by statistics.
Leaving only a neatly tied collection of
Commiseration and condolence.
Each letter offends, scuffed by insufficiency
But They endure:
He died at 5:13am at age 50
He died at 5:13am
He died.
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